Payne v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Johnson v. Commissioner of Correction (1991), Valeriano v. Bronson (1988)
165 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Mapp v. Ohio · Fay v. Noia · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Stone v. Powell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If illegally obtained evidence was admissible in such circumstances, the police officer might very well discount the fact that such evidence was inadmissible at a criminal trial, believing that incarceration of the probationer would instead be achieved through the revocation of his probation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]llegally obtained evidence is inadmissible in a criminal trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusion of such evidence will not significantly affect a police officer's motivation in conducting a search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.